BC Wildfire Active Weather Stations

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This dataset contains point locations for actively reporting BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) weather stations. BCWS operates a network of automated hourly reporting weather stations to support all aspects of fire management. The data are used as input to the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System, as a basis for weather forecasting and for climate monitoring. Sensors at the weather stations monitor temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction and rainfall. In a collaborative project with other government agencies and the private sector, select sites are being upgraded for year round operation by the addition of snow measurement gauges.

Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development

Sub-Organization

BC Wildfire Service

Access & Security

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Who can download this dataset?

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Metadata Information

Record Published

2016-04-27

Record Last Modified

2020-05-11

Resource Status

onGoing

Object Description

Object Name: WHSE_LAND_AND_NATURAL_RESOURCE.PROT_WEATHER_STATIONS_SP

Short Name: PRT_WTHRST

Column Name

Short Name

Data Type

Data Precision

Comments

WEATHER_STATIONS_ID

WTHR_STTNS

NUMBER

10

WEATHER STATION ID is a system generated unique identifier number.

STATION_CODE

STTN_CD

NUMBER

10

STATION_CODE is the internal unique number assigned to this weather station, e.g., 67 .

STATION_NAME

STTN_NM

VARCHAR2

50

STATION_NAME is a derived name of a weather station based on geographic significance, e.g. HAIG CAMP.

STATION_ACRONYM

STTN_ACRON

VARCHAR2

4

STATION_ACRONYM is a 4 character airport code for the closest airport to the station. This is used for weather forecasting software. This is not populated for all weather stations. The leading "C" may be dropped from most of the values, e.g.,CYYJ, YVR.

LATITUDE

LATITUDE

NUMBER

8

LATITUDE is the geographic coordinate, in decimal degrees (dd.dddddd), of the location of the feature as measured from the equator, e.g., 55.323653.

LONGITUDE

LONGITUDE

NUMBER

9

LONGITUDE is the geographic coordinate, in decimal degrees (-ddd.dddddd), of the location of the feature as measured from the prime meridian, e.g., -123.093544.

ELEVATION

ELEVATION

NUMBER

10

ELEVATION is the elevation of the weather station in metres above sea level as derived from the TRIM DEM.

INSTALL_DATE

INSTLL_DT

DATE

7

INSTALL_DATE is the date when the weather station was physically installed.

SHAPE

SHAPE

SDO_GEOMETRY

1

SHAPE is the column used to reference the spatial coordinates defining the feature.

OBJECTID

OBJECTID

NUMBER

38

OBJECTID is a column required by spatial layers that interact with ESRI ArcSDE. It is populated with unique values automatically by SDE.

SE_ANNO_CAD_DATA

BLOB

4000

SE_ANNO_CAD_DATA is a binary column used by spatial tools to store annotation, curve features and CAD data when using the SDO_GEOMETRY storage data type.

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